SpaceX to Deorbit 100 Starlink Satellites Due to Detected Flaw

[nickthegreek]

https://gizmodo.com/spacex-to-deorbit-100-starlink-satellites-due-to-detect-1851251676

[1970-01-01]

SpaceX should post which satellites and when, so we can watch it happen.

[ijhuygft776]

> The exact nature of the issue was not disclosed, and SpaceX does not respond to media requests for additional information.

I wonder if it's because they could be hacked.

[everybodyknows → ijhuygft776]

That would mean they're lying about the reason:

> An unspecified defect in early model Starlink satellites has prompted SpaceX to preemptively deorbit the units before they potentially fail and become hazards in low Earth orbit.

[ijhuygft776 → everybodyknows]

That doesn't mean that they couldn't fail as a consequence of a hack.....

[jstarfish → ijhuygft776]

Something close to that, I think.

Russia has been putting a lot of effort into beam jamming lately. DoSing/jamming the uplink interfaces could result in commands not relaying/executing, hence: loss of control.

[rekttrader → ijhuygft776]

This... my hunch is faulty territory lockouts. Russia has been gray market importing starlinks given their usefulness in Ukraine.

[inemesitaffia → rekttrader]

This isn't it. I'm 100% sure